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Ode to a Grasshopper wrote:Aww, c'mon, I'm sure Harry Potter and the Pink Dollar would be a great read.

I'm not sure if J.K. Rowling would be willing to commit career suicide.

OK, I confess, I was holding back too...

Harry Potter and the Phoenix Feather Boa.....

Tricky wrote:Impossible, there was no stylish handbag!

Corrected.

dragon wench wrote:OK, I confess, I was holding back too...

Harry Potter and the Phoenix Feather Boa.....

I don't Know......
I think Harry Potter and the Other Side of the Lake could be fun,
OR
Harry Potter and the Great Alabaster Tower (Just think it through, you'll get it.)

O the innuendos....What Fun.

Why Alabaster?

I think it should be Harry Potter and the Great Sulfuric Tower. More unpredictable and not to mention stinky...

For the record I'm a fan of the series but couldn't care less if Dumbledore was gay of otherwise.

How does Harry Potter and the Money-Sucking Author sound?

Pretty good. What do you think of Harry Potter and the Magical Bank Account?

fable

What do you think of Harry Potter and the Magical Bank Account?

One that can grow exponentially?

Fantabulous. (If there is even such a word...)

I still think Rowling's getting her own back at all the fundies who have been picketing (and even burning, in public) her books. Just a little bit more to outrage them, to make them scurry about like chickens whose routine has been temporarily shattered.

But when I heard financial news praising the the Harry Potter series for the sales it was generating, and then noticed all the heavy merchandising of the series, I quickly grew ill. Kudos to Rowling for knowing how to milk the popularity of her very average and unimaginative creation. For the rest, I think the fundies deserve her.

fable

But when I heard financial news praising the the Harry Potter series for the sales it was generating, and then noticed all the heavy merchandising of the series, I quickly grew ill. Kudos to Rowling for knowing how to milk the popularity of her very average and unimaginative creation. For the rest, I think the fundies deserve her.

From your finely worded post, I can safely conclude that you are no Harry Potter fan. Am I right in my assumption, fable?

If not Harry Potter, then what kind of books do you enjoy?

Any particular writer that you like?

fable wrote: Kudos to Rowling for knowing how to milk the popularity of her very average and unimaginative creation.

Isn't that what makes her books above average?

Fiberfar wrote:Isn't that what makes her books above average?

No, it only makes her business savvy. To make a book above average does not require one to use publicity.

It requires a fantastic author to create a masterpeice. Duh.

Loki[D.d.G] wrote:From your finely worded post, I can safely conclude that you are no Harry Potter fan. Am I right in my assumption, fable?

Gods! You mean--it shows?

If not Harry Potter, then what kind of books do you enjoy?

Any particular writer that you like?

I'm assuming you mean for fantasy. I'm partial to Lord Dunsany (who should really be credited for inventing the musical use of English that Tolkien later employed), the great stylist James Branch Cabell, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Jorge Amato, Fritz Leiber, RA Lafferty, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Ernest Bramah, Lewis Carroll, Richard Garnett, and Anatole France. Others I can't recall, but I don't have that much time for fiction, nowadays. I'm currently reading one of the more recent Rose Tremain novels, Restoration. Great stuff.

Fiberfar wrote:Isn't that what makes her books above average?

Heh. I have to fall back on the image of Mel Brooks as a benign Yogurt in Spaceballs, chirping in that hoarse Brooklyn accent of his, "It's all about MOI-CHAN-DIS-ING!" That about defines the adult furor over Rowling. If you ignore that group of wingnut fundies who want her tried in a Star Chamber fashion.

fable

Gods! You mean--it shows?

I was being cynical with my own finely worded post.

Loki[D.d.G] wrote:I was being cynical with my own finely worded post.

And you think I didn't know that? I was just sharing in and enjoying the fresh satirical air of it all.

Ahh, nothing like the satin smooth nuances of refreshing cynicism to make a person misread and misunderstand a sentence, no?

Maybe we should start a new thread dealing with the pros and cons of wordplay. Then all the aspiring politicians amongst our ranks could be revealed.

Loki[D.d.G] wrote:Ahh, nothing like the satin smooth nuances of refreshing cynicism to make a person misread and misunderstand a sentence, no?

Maybe we should start a new thread dealing with the pros and cons of wordplay. Then all the aspiring politicians amongst our ranks could be revealed.

Sheer genius. Go for it! I'm sure at least a few others besides ourselves will join in.

Right, will get started right away.

See how talk about Dumbledore has involved into a discussion about words. *Sigh* we really don't have anything else to do.

Loki[D.d.G] wrote:Right, will get started right away.

See how talk about Dumbledore has involved into a discussion about words. *Sigh* we really don't have anything else to do.

Words are enough reason.

Well spoken, or rather written.

Anyway, the thread is done. Hope for a good response. :laugh: